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Adi Robertson

Pokémon developer faces major data leak

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Hackers released a collection of leaked data from Pokémon game developer Game Freak over the weekend, including personal information about employees. Game Freak — which develops the main lineup of Pokémon video games — confirmed the breach in a statement, saying (per a machine translation from Japanese) that it was the result of “unauthorized access to our servers by a third party” and dated back to August of 2024.

Game Freak said the leaked personal...

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Matina Stevis-Gridneff

Canada Expels Indian Diplomats, Claiming They Were Part of a Criminal Network

Canadian police said the Indian government was orchestrating homicides and extortion in Canada to intimidate Sikh separatists. India, in return, kicked out Canadian diplomats.

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Associated Press

Lilly Ledbetter, an icon of the equal pay movement, dies at 86

Former President Barack Obama signed into law the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which gave workers the right to sue within 180 days of receiving each discrimination paycheck, not just the first one.

Lilly Ledbetter, a former Alabama factory manager whose lawsuit against her employer made her an icon of the equal pay movement and led to landmark wage discrimination legislation, has died at 86.

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Lance Lambert

The key local housing market metric to watch heading into 2025

Will home prices in your local housing market rise or fall next year? This metric could offer a clue.

Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter.

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Harris targets Black male voters in new economic proposals

The new policies include 1 million loans that are fully forgivable of up to $20,000 to entrepreneurs in underserved communities, and a promise to legalize recreational marijuana and help ensure Black entrepreneurs have access to the new industry.

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, concerned about slipping support from Black voters, unveiled new policy proposals aimed at Black men on Monday that include forgivable small business loans and access to a new legal recreational...

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Associated Press

How this federally funded education program serves as a blueprint for the rest of rural America

Today, Partners for Rural Impact’s budget is around $78.2 million, with 78% coming from the government.

In 2010, Dreama Gentry met Geoffrey Canada, founder of Harlem Children’s Zone, a much-lauded nonprofit that supports youth from birth through college in a roughly 100-block area of central Harlem. The program was an inspiration for Gentry, who had launched a college-access program in rural eastern Kentucky about a decade earlier.

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Reuters

Google to buy nuclear power for AI’s energy needs

Technology firms have signed several recent agreements with nuclear power companies this year as artificial intelligence boosts power demand for the first time in decades.

Alphabet’s Google said on Monday it signed the world’s first corporate agreement to buy power from multiple small modular reactors as the technology company looks to meet electricity demand from artificial intelligence.

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Jay Peters

Silo’s new season 2 trailer teases what’s next for Juliette

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Apple has released the first trailer for the second season of Silo, and it looks like the season will tell us what happens to protagonist Juliette after the jaw-dropping cliffhanger at the end of season one.

The show, based on a series of books by Hugh Howey, is about a community of 10,000 people living in an underground silo that’s intended to protect them from dangerous conditions aboveground. If you’ve been meaning to see the first season and haven’t yet, you...

Mashable

You can get art from MoMA on your Samsung Frame TV now

Samsung is always updating the art available on The Frame TV — its television that, when off, displays a piece of artwork and blends seamlessly into your decor.

But the images available to display is primarily art that belongs in the public domain, which is art that is free to use because the creator has given away their rights or it is old enough that the copyright has expired. That's why it's easier to find older pieces of art on The Frame TV than it is to find more modern pieces — but...

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21 Hilarious Internet Fails That Made Me Laugh So Hard I Peed A Little

Just call me "Purse Burgers."

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Shams Charania

Sources: Lonzo Ball plans to return vs. Wolves

After missing two straight NBA seasons, Bulls guard Lonzo Ball is expected to make his return to basketball in Wednesday night's preseason home game against the Timberwolves, sources told ESPN.

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Daniel Oyefusi

Coach: Watson still gives Browns best shot to win

Coach Kevin Stefanski again placed his support behind Deshaun Watson as the Browns' starting quarterback, saying he still gives the team the best chance to win.

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Shams Charania

Sources: Kings' Fox bypasses extension, eyes '25

Kings star De'Aaron Fox is passing up the offer of a three-year, $165 million extension, positioning himself for a larger deal in the 2025 offseason.

Mashable

Apple study reveals major AI flaw in OpenAI, Google, and Meta LLMs

Large Language Models (LLMs) may not be as smart as they seem, according to a study from Apple researchers.

LLMs from OpenAI, Google, Meta, and others have been touted for their impressive reasoning skills. But research suggests their purported intelligence may be closer to "sophisticated pattern matching" than "true logical reasoning." Yep, even OpenAI's o1 advanced reasoning model.

The most common benchmark for reasoning skills is a test called GSM8K, but since it's so popular, there's a...

Mashable

Robot vacuums spew racial slurs at owners in wake of hack

First came the nanny cams and home assistants, then came the security doorbells, now it's the age of the hacked vacuums.

First reported by ABC News Australia, owners of robot vacuums across multiple U.S. states experienced invasive hacking of their devices by individuals who took physical control of the cleaning bots and used their internal audio features to shout racial slurs at people in their homes. Owners first heard garbled voices coming from their devices, then noticed the vacuum's live...

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16 Hysterical Black Tweets People Actually Posted On The Internet This Week (And I Can't Thank Them Enough)

"driving and conversing in the car with my child then she says 'simon says just drive don’t talk' gagged tf out of me"

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Noa Dalzell

Joe Mazzulla and the Celtics have created a relentless culture of winning

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Regardless of who has been on the floor, the defending champions have fittingly been the best team this preseason.

BOSTON – Every now and then, confetti still falls from the rafters at TD Garden. In a Saturday night Celtics thrashing, a small piece of paper landed on Derrick White’s head. On Sunday, a few pieces were collected by an excited courtside fan who immediately handed them to a young boy sitting a few rows back.

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Erica L. Green and Nicholas Nehamas

Harris Campaign Unveils Policy Agenda Targeted at Black Men

The vice president released a plan to help Black men financially, held interviews with two Black media outlets and put out targeted ads in battleground states.

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